John Davidson

Message:

Using PHP, I have an array like this:

Array 1

[

  {epid: "123", hash: "xxxxxx"},

  {epid: "456", hash: "xxxxxx"},

  {epid: "789", hash: "xxxxxx"},

  {epid: "123", hash: "xxxxxx"},

  {epid: "123", hash: "xxxxxx"},

]

Then, I have a second array like this:

Array 2

[

  {epid: "123", name: "This is a title"},

  {epid: "456", name: "This is a title"},

  {epid: "789", name: "This is a title"}

]

My goal is to get all hash from array one and add them to the appropriate record in array 2. From this example, the results would be:

[

  {epid: "123", name: "This is a title", hash: [ xxxxxx, xxxxxx, xxxxxx ] },

  {epid: "456", name: "This is a title", hash: [ xxxxxx ] },

  {epid: "789", name: "This is a title", hash: [ xxxxxx ] }

]

I'm sure there are multiple loops here, but for the life of me, I can't wrap my brain around it.

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My Answer:
1, name: "John", age: 25},
{epid: 2, name: "Jane", age: 30},
{epid: 3, name: "Alice", age: 28}
]

_Array 2_
[
{epid: 1, result: "Pass"},
{epid: 2, result: "Fail"},
{epid: 3, result: "Pass"}
]

I want to merge these two arrays based on the "epid" key and get the following result:

_Final Array_
[
{epid: 1, name: "John", age: 25, result: "Pass"},
{epid: 2, name: "Jane", age: 30, result: "Fail"},
{epid: 3, name: "Alice", age: 28, result: "Pass"}
]

Here's how you can achieve this in PHP:

php
$array1 = [
['epid' => 1, 'name' => 'John', 'age' => 25],
['epid' => 2, 'name' => 'Jane', 'age' => 30],
['epid' => 3, 'name' => 'Alice', 'age' => 28]
];

$array2 = [
['epid' => 1, 'result' => 'Pass'],
['epid' => 2, 'result' => 'Fail'],
['epid' => 3, 'result' => 'Pass']
];

$finalArray = [];

foreach ($array1 as $item1) {
foreach ($array2 as $item2) {
if ($item1['epid'] == $item2['epid']) {
$finalArray[] = array_merge($item1, $item2);
}
}
}

print_r($finalArray);


This code snippet will merge the two arrays based on the "epid" key and create the final array as shown above.